Toshiba GMAD00134010 manual Checking the HDD operating status, Click Disk Management

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Hard Drive Recovery Utilities

Recovering the entire HDD without the HDD Recovery Area

This option recovers your C: drive without creating the HDD Recovery Utilities partition. This will increase the size of your C: drive

Recovering your C: drive to its factory default state without the recovery partition reformats all partitions on the HDD (for example, if you created a D: drive, it will be deleted during the recovery process) and your information will be lost. Be sure to save your work to external media first.

To recover your C: drive without the recovery partition:

1Select Recovery of Factory Default Software, and then click Next.

2Select Recover using all HDD space (no HDD recovery partition), and then click Next.

A confirmation message appears, reminding you that all partitions will be reformatted and all data will be lost during the recovery process. Be sure you have saved your work to external media before proceeding.

3Click Yes to begin the restoration.

Once complete, a message displays that the HDD has been recovered.

4Press any key on your keyboard to restart the computer.

Checking the HDD operating status

After restoring your hard disk drive, you can check its status as follows:

1Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

2Double-click the Administrative Tools icon.

3Double-click the Computer Management icon.

4Click Disk Management.

5Highlight the hard disk drive in the Volume list to display its status in the lower portion of the screen.